Kinneret Shiryon
Kinneret Shiryon is the first female rabbi in Israel. [1] She is the spiritual leader of Kehillat Yozma, Modi'in's Reform congregation, which she helped establish in 1997; Kehillat Yozma is the first non-Orthodox congregation in Israel to receive state funding for its synagogue building. [2] [3] [4] She was also chairwoman of the Council of Progressive Rabbis in Israel (MARAM), [5] as well as one of the rabbis who contributed to the book Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories. She contributed the story "Challahs in the Ark." [6] She directed the University Student Outreach programs at UAHC's International Department of Education in Jerusalem. [7]
Kinneret Shiryon was born in the United States in 1955, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1981. [8] She has four children (Ayelet, Erez, Inbar, and Amichai) and her husband's name is Baruch. [9] [10]
References
- ^ http://templesinaidc.org/Events/index.cfm?id=5822&pge_prg_id=8406&pge_id=0&date=10/21/2009
- ^ http://templesinaidc.org/Events/index.cfm?id=5822&pge_prg_id=8406&pge_id=0&date=10/21/2009
- ^ http://huc.edu/newspubs/pressroom/07/7/aliya.shtml
- ^ http://www.yozma.org.il/eng/2rabbi.htm
- ^ http://templesinaidc.org/Events/index.cfm?id=5822&pge_prg_id=8406&pge_id=0&date=10/21/2009
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=LgZo-VBEo9gC&pg=PT81&dq=kinneret+shiryon&hl=en&ei=uJe5TpneMemgsgK5-ozZCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=3&ved=0CD0Q6wEwAg#v=onepage&q=kinneret%20shiryon&f=false
- ^ http://www.yozma.org.il/eng/2rabbi.htm
- ^ http://huc.edu/newspubs/pressroom/article.php?pressroomid=1411
- ^ http://huc.edu/newspubs/pressroom/article.php?pressroomid=1411
- ^ http://www.yozma.org.il/eng/2rabbi.htm